Clay Hill Potters

"mike penny"

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THE POTTERY IS NOW OPEN. The sheds are mended, as you will see from the photographs

Classes at the moment are on Tuesday evenings, Wednesday mornings & Wednesday evenings, but soon there may be other times too

Clay Hill Potters is a club. We are a group of amateur potters and ceramic users.

Most of us at one time attended pottery classes at the Five Acres College near Berry Hill, Coleford.

Some two years ago the College closed their pottery course and we were in the fortunate position

to be able to buy the equipment from them. We transported all this across the Forest of Dean

to a barn near Newnham on Severn. We not only brought the kilns, wheels, pug mills, cabinets,

tables, chairs, but we hired our teacher Joan Doherty too. So now we run our own classes and

continue to learn how to make pots under Joan's instruction.

We use many types of clay including, stoneware, earthenware, porcelain and crank.

Sometimes we have a raku firing and for that we try to have a party.

Many of our members also seem to be very good cooks.

We have been fortunate to have been given demonstrations by some professional potters, such as

Last summer we were able to make our facilities available to a Owen Maseko

a visiting potter from Zimbabwe.

The links from this site are filling up with pictures of a completed set of workshops and

lots of happy smiling potters!

There are classes and places for all skill levels.

If you are interested in joining then send a message via the email link below.

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as seen from the Dean Road when approaching from Newnham.

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